• tiredofsametab@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Without looking, I’m pretty sure that’s Houston, TX near the arena (whose name now escapes me after almost a decade away). I moved to a place with great public transit and could never go back to driving all the time.

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    1 year ago

    Sad how car citric our cities have become. But even worse was in Yellowstone and you can’t get anywhere without a car and traffic backs up and you stuck while everyone sitting in their running cars spraying the shitty fumes in the air.

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          1 year ago

          Yeah, there are multiple issues that would need to be fixed.

          • Land value tax would offer a financial incentive not to waste space
          • Mandatory parking space laws currently force businesses to surround themselves with massive parking spots, so removing these laws would allow for more compact building
          • Zoning laws currently often prohibit mixed usage, thus making it impossible to have e.g. accommodation, shops and workplaces in walkable distances
          • The spread-out way of building stuff then causes public transport to become unviable, which in turn makes the car basically mandatory. This is a bit of a chicken-egg-problem since fixing it would require people to move into denser accommodation.
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    1 year ago

    Yeah no, European tech wages are garbage. I also love cars, we have big open roads here.

    I am a bit jealous of the autobahn though.

    It’s odd to see people hate cars. How you can have no interest in driving or your car is weird.

    • 🐱TheCat@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      driving my car includes:

      • paying money to put gas, oil, tires on the car for the rest of my life
      • paying some dickhead insurance fees monthly
      • sitting in traffic
      • risking getting a ticket from any power tripping cop who wants to make up a reason to test if I have a dashcam
      • risking getting injured/murdered when any other idiot nearby in a car does something stupid at 60mph +
      • if I do get injured, I get to pay for that too cause MURICA
      • a notable lack of anything fun and cool like open windy roads to drive on or safe areas to do donuts

      now, do you really think most people like not having a choice about needing all that just to get basic life stuff done? ‘Driving my car’ isn’t some fun hobby for us, it’s a bullshit thing we’re coerced into because our country was run by oil tycoons who hated public transport.

      oh forgot one:

      • dealing with a generation of old people who have been permanently stunted by leaded gasoline, making them more likely to be stupid, angry, and violent.